Nitric oxide and carbon monoxide activate locus coeruleus neurons through a cGMP-dependent protein kinase: Involvement of a nonselective cationic channel

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 1389-1399

  Pineda, Joseba ^a   Kogan, Jeffrey H ^a   Aghajanian, George K ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

brain slices; cAMP; carbon monoxide; cGMP; intracellular; locus coeruleus; nitric oxide; nonselective cationic channel; noradrenergic; protein kinases

Indexed keywords

8 BROMO CYCLIC AMP; 8 BROMO CYCLIC GMP; CARBON MONOXIDE; CYCLIC GMP DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE; FERRICYANIDE; HEMOGLOBIN; N (2 METHYLAMINOETHYL) 5 ISOQUINOLINESULFONAMIDE; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE DONOR; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME KINETICS; ENZYME REGULATION; ENZYME SUBUNIT; LOCUS CERULEUS; MALE; MEMBRANE CONDUCTANCE; MEMBRANE CURRENT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 0029965426     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.16-04-01389.1996     Document Type: Article

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